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College of Humanities students learn essential skills with a human perspective to navigate the workforce of the future.

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Learn the skills to compete in the global economy by studying Humanities. Declare a major or minor using our online form below!

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Graduating Soon?

Find all the information you need about the College of Humanities Convocation Ceremonies – a special celebration every semester for just our grads.

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Congratulations to Our High Achieving Students

The College of Humanities is pleased to recognize and reward our undergraduate students whose performance merits special attention.

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Nov. 8, 2024

Humanities Seminars Program Celebrates 40 Years

There’s a certain magic that develops in the Humanities Seminars Program, an energy created by the convergence of knowledgeable professors, engaged students and topics of great interest. For 40 years, that magic has driven the University of Arizona’s premier lifelong learning program and built a community around the exchange of ideas and the enduring lessons of the humanities.

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Humanities Seminars Program celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Recent News

Africana Studies Department Head Praise Zenenga celebrates with a new graduate at convocation.

Longtime Bond Between Africana Studies & Community Provides Mutual Benefits

Feb. 5, 2025
Twenty years after the introduction of the Africana Studies degree at the University of Arizona, the program maintains the same strong ties to Tucson’s tight-knit Black community that brought it to life in the first place. A direct product of the…
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Paul and Dale Adamsbaum and scholarship recipient Samia Hartley.

Adamsbaum Family Establishes First Endowed Scholarship in Africana Studies

Feb. 5, 2025
When Paul Adamsbaum was in college in the late 60s and early 70s in New York, he had a job delivering LPs and 45s to record stores throughout the city. Visiting as many as a dozen stores a day, he got to know the neighborhoods, their music and the…
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Frank Whitehead

SILLC’s Whitehead Receives Graduate Program Coordinator Award

Feb. 5, 2025
Frank Whitehead, Graduate Services Coordinator for the School of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures, is the recipient of the Graduate Program Coordinator Outstanding Contributions Award. The Graduate College created the award in 2024…
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